Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/24—Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blinds
  • E06B9/40—Roller blinds
  • E06B9/42—Parts or details of roller blinds, e.g. suspension devices, blind boxes
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/24—Screens or other constructions affording protection against light, especially against sunshine; Similar screens for privacy or appearance; Slat blinds
  • E06B9/26—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds
  • E06B9/28—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds with horizontal lamellae, e.g. non-liftable
  • E06B9/30—Lamellar or like blinds, e.g. venetian blinds with horizontal lamellae, e.g. non-liftable liftable
  • E06B9/32—Operating, guiding, or securing devices therefor
  • E06B9/327—Guides for raisable lamellar blinds with horizontal lamellae
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
  • E06B9/58—Guiding devices
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
  • E06B9/58—Guiding devices
  • E06B2009/583—Cords or cables

Definitions

• a universal mounting and parallel guidance arrangement for a window screening device is provided.
• the present invention relates to a universal mounting and parallel guidance arrangement for at least one screening device for a window, in particular a roof window, where the screening device comprises a body of screening material which in an idle position is rolled up, collapsed, or pleated and occupies a position in or at a main frame or sash member of the window, whereas said body in a free end is connected to a bottom bar, profile rail or strip.
• the object of the invention is to provide a mounting and parallel guidance arrangement of the initially stated kind where the said drawbacks are set right and which in a simple way can be mounted together with at least one screening device, whether a roller, pleated, or Venetian blind, and whether or not these are provided with a parallel guidance arrangement.
• a universal mounting and parallel guidance arrangement is characterized in that it comprises at least one mounting bar having a through-going hollowness and designed for a releasable interconnection with the bottom bar, profile rail or strip of the screening device, two parallel guidance cord systems each being led through said mounting bar and comprising end parts which protrude from each end of the stick, and installation brackets for the free end of each of the said end parts whereby the two installation brackets for a cord system are preferably meant for fastening at the top of a first main frame or sash side member and at the bottom of the other main frame or sash side member opposite in relation to the first one, respectively.
• Such a mounting and parallel guidance arrangement thus constitutes a kind of a simple base module which can relatively easy be mounted also on already installed windows and can be used with the common screening devices in the form of roller, pleated, or Venetian blinds, and especially such which are not beforehand provided with a parallel guidance arrangement.
• screening devices may e.g. comprise casings, cabinets, cassettes or the like designed with interconnection brackets which can easily be connected with the installation brackets in the base module.
• the parallel guidance cord systems are pretensioned, preferably by pretensioning springs positioned in connection with said installation brackets or by elastic cords or alike .
• the base module can be designed with a view to electric operation of the screening device by connecting the mounting bar with at least one draw cord which is in connection with an electric operation device comprising a rewinding drum for the draw cord mounted in or at the main frame or sash top or bottom member.
• Fig. 1 shows a front view of a mounting and parallel guidance arrangement according to the invention
• FIG. 2 a mounting and parallel guidance arrangement according to the invention mounted in a window
• Figs. 3 and 4 show a section of Fig. 2 on a larger scale
• Fig. 5 shows a detail of another embodiment for the arrangement according to the invention
• Fig. 6 a view of a further embodiment for the mounting and parallel guidance arrangement according to the invention.
• a mounting and parallel guidance arrangement is shown in its delivery condition where it constitutes a base module for use with screening devices of various kinds .
• Such screening devices comprise, as mentioned in the beginning, a body of screening material which can be rolled up (e.g. a roller blind), which can be collapsed (e.g. a Venetian blind) or which can be pleated (e.g. a pleated blind) .
• the arrangement comprises a mounting bar 1 which is hollow in its entire length, two parallel guidance cords 2 and 3 led through the mounting bar 1 and installation brackets 4, 5, 6 and 7 in each of the free ends of the cords 2 and 3.
• One free end of the cord 2 is connected with the corresponding installation bracket 4 through a pretensioning spring 8 just as one free end of the cord 3 is connected with its installation bracket 5 through a corresponding spring 9.
• the bracket 4 is fastened to the sash of the window shown in Fig. 2 and comprising a bottom member 10, a top member 11 and two side members 12, 13, by means of a bracket 14 fastened to the side member 12 near the top member 11.
• the bracket 14 can as indicated in Fig. 3 be designed as a snap lock for releasable engagement with the bracket 4.
• the opposite side sash member 13 is mounted with a bracket reversed in relation to the bracket 14, but designed in a corresponding way for engagement with the bracket 5.
• brackets 6 and 7 are fastened to each their side sash member 13 and 12 at the sash bottom member 10 by means of brackets of which the left bracket 17 is shown in Fig. 4 and also designed as mutually reversed snap locks in order to obtain the position shown in Fig. 2.
• a screening device can then in a manner known per se be fastened optionally, e.g. at the top sash member 11, and its screening body drawn out from its inactive position whereupon the bottom bar, profile rail or strip of the screening device are connected with the mounting bar 1, e.g. by means of clips.
• the bottom bar will all the time be essentially parallel to the bottom and top member of both the sash and the main frame.
• the pretensioning springs 8 and 9 ensure that the parallel guidance cords 2 and 3 are tensioned all the time. These springs need, of course, not be positioned as illustrated, but can e.g. be built in the very bracket 4 in such a way that they are not immediately visible seen from the outside.
• the bottom bar of the roller blind is, as described in the above, connected to the mounting bar 1 in the base module .
• the mounting is initiated by fastening the lower brackets 6, 7 of the mounting and parallel guidance arrangement to each of their sash members 13, 12 at the sash bottom member 10 by means of the brackets 17.
• the screening device has not yet been mounted in the window, it is placed with e.g. its top casing, e.g. a curtain cassette in the case of a roller blind, at the top sash member 11.
• the upper brackets 4, 5 of the mounting and parallel guidance arrangement can then be connected with the top casing of the screening device by each bracket 4,5 retaining the top casing to the brackets 14 of the side sash members via end parts or insertion components for the screening devices. Subsequently, the separate side guide rails 18, 19 can be mounted and e.g. be fixed by means of screws whereupon the bottom bar of the screening device, as in the above, is connected with the mounting bar in the mounting and parallel guidance arrangement. .
• the upper brackets 4, 5 " can also be designed in such a way that they are merely connected with the casing of the screening device without this being retained to the window, e.g. by snap engagement whereby the side guide rails 18, 19 result in retaining the top casing to the window.
• the mounting and the parallel guidance arrangement can usually be demounted without demounting the entire screening device.
• the arrangement comprises a further screening body which at its one end is connected with the mounting bar and which at its free end is provided with a bottom bar, profile rail or strip for optional connection with either the mounting bar, i.e. in situations where the screening body is not used, or with the mounting bracket on the main frame or sash side members of the window when the screening body is in use.
• the arrangement with the additional screening body comprises in that case a specially designed bottom bar, profile rail or strip being hollow over the entire length and where two parallel guidance cord systems individually can again be led through the said special bottom bar, profile rail or strip in such a way that the free ends of the said cord systems with the mounting brackets are fastened e.g. to the adjacent main frame or sash side members.
• the additional screening body in a simple way, and if these bodies are selected in an appropriate way, e.g. as to colour, translucence, etc., this implies, of course, a strongly increased flexibil- ity in the use of the arrangement.
• the quality that the additional screening body in a simple way via the double parallel guidance can be positioned optionally in the window opening to cover an optional part hereof .
• Both the mounting bar and the bottom bar can be provided with retaining members of which some contribute to the establishment of a interconnection between the two bars, especially in situations where the screening body is not to be used. Other retaining elements contribute to the establishing of a connection e.g. to a cover strip or casing for the first screening device .
• the two bars permit a parallel guidance of each of these bars so that they may move independently in rela- tion to each other.
• Another not illustrated way of using the universal mounting and parallel guidance arrangement is to apply two or more several arrangements at the same time.
• an independent screening device can be situated as a supplement to the screening device or devices positioned above and/or below in the window.
• FIG. 6 a development of the mounting and parallel guidance arrangement according to the inven- tion is shown and provided at the lower sash member with a driving device known per se from WO 96/22447.
• the driving device comprises an electric drive mo- tpr 26 with a not further shown gear unit and is via a motor shaft 27 connected with a rolling-up device in the form of a drum 28.
• Two draw cords 29 and 30 are with one end connected with the mounting bar 1 and with another end via guide rolls 31, 32 led to and entwined round the drum 28.
• the two draw cords 29 and 30 may be replaced by one single cord which in that case is led through the entire mounting bar 1.
• the drum is designed with threaded sections having mutually opposite pitch directions and each being in engagement with a nut element 33, 34 with correspon- ding thread.
• the nut elements 33, 34 are axially displaceable in relation to each other.
• the motor 26 drives the drum 28 via the motor shaft 27 and the nut elements 33, 34 move away from each other during simultaneous winding up of the draw cords 29, 30 which are being placed in the treads in each drum section whereby the mounting bar 1 and thus the bottom bar of the roller blind is drawn downwards in the direction of the bottom member of the sash and/or the main frame .

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